Re: [Fwd: Re: [geeks] ORBit under IRIX]

[Jonathan Bartlett <johnnyb eskimo com>]

OAF stands for object activation framework.  It is GNOME's way of creating
listings and mappings of objects on the server, and starting them
appropriately.  With OAF you can say "this program supports this interface
and is started in this way".  So, if an application needs something that
supports interface foo, they can look it up with oaf.

Jon

On Mon, 10 Dec 2001, Dave McGuire wrote:

> On December 10, Michael Meeks wrote:
> > > !       char *fmt = CPP_PROGRAM " " CPP_NOSTDINC " -I- -I%s %s \"%s\" 2>/dev/null";
> > 
> > 	I can't think why one might want to pass '-I-' to cpp; very odd
> 
>   Yes.  I tried to come up with a reason why, and my head started to
> hurt, so I gave up and just fixed it. :)
> 
> > >   This gets ORBit to build under IRIX 6.5.  Of course after spending a
> > > while tracking that down, the whole thing (getting gnome working) went
> > > to hell in a handbasket while trying to build oaf.  I've given
> > > up in frustration...looks like gnome isn't in my future. :-(
> > 
> > 	I'm extremely sorry about that. Tell you what - if you try and
> > build Gnome 2.0 instead - then I'll spend a lot of time helping you and
> > folding any fixes back into the system. With gnome 1.4 it's far more
> > difficult, since it's all hard frozen.
> 
>   Sounds good...I'm having to spend most of my time looking for income
> these days, but I think I can devote some time to this.
> 
> > 	If the problem affects ORBit2 [ looks like it might if it's in
> > libIDL ] I'd be most interested in fixing it. Gnome 2.0 is also
> > substantialy ANSI C - which should make it easier to build lots of places.
> 
>   That's most encouraging.
> 
> > 	To build Gnome 2.0 you'd need to pull everything from CVS; there
> > should be some links from developer.gnome.org on how to build it (I think)
> > otherwise reading vicious-build-scripts might help [ but I've never used
> > that ].
> 
>   Ok.  I will work on pulling the sources down tonight.  Any thoughts on
> getting oaf working?  I must admit that I don't even know what it is,
> or if it's a part of Gnome, or what...it was on the list of required
> libraries so I grabbed it and started building it. :-)
> 
>      -Dave
> 
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> Dave McGuire
> St. Petersburg, FL
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